Kohukoru, New Zealand

... very chilly snorkel before spending the night in Paihia in the Bay of Islands. This is probably the most historic area in New Zealand. Following Captain Cook's landing in 1769 (Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first whitey to set eyes on the country ...

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We both woke up in funny moods this morning, we put it down to the crap atmosphere at this crappy campsite! We packed up and headed off late and went to the Treaty house at Waitangi (near Paihia). I was really disappointed as I really wanted to see the ...

We arrive in Auckland pretty late and manage to find a bus that will take us near to our hostel but end up getting on the one that goes the long way round so we get to the hostel pretty late! In the morning we walk down to the centre of Auckland where we ...

... morning as we had a big drive ahead of us. The plan was for us to make our way to Cape Reigna, the Northern most tip of New Zealand. However, before we had been in the car 10 minutes we had found our first stop - Haruru Falls. SO there we were at 7.40am ...